STUDLEY - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"STUDLEY, a parish in the Alcester division of Barlichway hundred, county Warwick, 4 miles N.W. of Alcester, and 6 S.W. of Henley-in-Arden. The village is on the river Arrow, and on the road from Birmingham to Alcester. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the needle and fish-hook manufactories. The parish includes the hamlet of Mapleborough, with the ruins of an Austin priory founded by Peter Corbezon or De Studley, in Stephen's time, as a cell to Wicton or Wick.

There are brick kilns, and malting is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value £103. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a Norman arch at the northern end. There is a chapel-of-ease in the village. The parochial charities produce about £57 per annum. There are a free school and an infant school, also a Sunday-school. The Wesleyans, Baptists, and Roman Catholics have chapels. Studley Castle is the principal residence."

"MAPLEBOROUGH, a village in the parish of Studley, county Warwick, 3 miles N. of Alcester."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]